GPT-3 happened and showed that by throwing more computation at the problem you have better results.

As one of my AI profs said: it's like trying to teach pigs to fly, and say you're progressing because you're building higher towers.

Chomsky and Gary Marcus predict that the current approach will not be sufficient; is and will increasingly be detrimental to society because of that “almost right at best” reason. Chomsky only has hopes in a combined approach that integrates “old AI” with the engineering / data / GPU driven one. See also discussion here for anyone interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33857543